Lee Kit, In Broad Daylight, 2024

Digital videos, packing tapes, spray paint on stainless steel and carpet
dimensions variable

Courtesy of the artist

Look at the sky in broad daylight. When political incorrectness becomes political correctness. “It’s smoother than breathing.”

He is talking to himself. He thinks there is a relationship between performative criticality, political incorrectness and political correctness. They progress, merge and submerge towards each other surprisingly unnoticing and smooth. Smoother than silk. Reminding him of shameless sex. For a period of time, he found it crucial to keep a certain distance from some kind of smoothness in everything. Which one is worse when things happen so smoothly, progressive mediocracy or progressive failure?

Noiselessly, this is all that matters.

Lee Kit, born 1978 in Hong Kong, HK, lives and works in Taipei, TW, graduated from the Fine Arts Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and obtained his bachelor’s degree of art. 

Solo exhibitions include I’ll take (A)., Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, TW (2023); Retain a desolate face, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, TW (2022); Lovers on the beach, West Den Haag, NL (2021); Resonance of a sad smile, Art Sonje Centre, Seoul, KR (2019); ‘We used to be more sensitive.’, Hara Museum, Tokyo, JP (2018); Linger on, your lit-up shade, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, IT (2018); I didn’t know that I was dead, OCAT, Shenzhen, CN (2018); A small sound in your head, S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE (2016); Hold your breath, dance slowly, The Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, US (2016); The voice behind me, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, JAP (2015); ‘You (you).’, The 55th Venice Biennale, IT (2013); ‘Every breath you take.’, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2012); House M, The Pavilion, Beijing, CN (2012); ‘This is not an easy thing.’, Arrow Factory, Beijing, CN (2012); Henry (Have you ever been this low?), Western Front, Vancouver, CA (2011).